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BLAKE, William (1757-1827, engraver) -- Hayley, William (1745-1820). The Triumphs of Temper. Chichester: 1803. 8° (163 x 96mm). 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. (Plates waterstained at bottom margin and slightly soiled, last plate detached.) Contemporary tree calf (incisions to covers, spine crinkled). Provenance: I.P. Mulhallen (signature on title and bookplate). Bentley 471; Essick 43.
FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS -- MONTGOMERY, James. The World before the Flood. London: Longman [etc.], 1814. 12°. (Without half-title.) Contemporary polished calf, covers with gilt border enclosing a octagonal figure in blind (spine restored), with fore-edge painting of a house by a river, too large to be 'Pope's House -- Twickenham' as identified in an inserted 19th-century manuscript note. Third edition; together with an 1821 edition of Thomson's The Seasons, with another fore-edge painting of a mansion on the Thames. (3)
FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS -- MONTGOMERY, James. The World before the Flood. London: Longman [etc.], 1814. 12°. (Without half-title.) Contemporary polished calf, covers with gilt border enclosing a octagonal figure in blind (spine restored), with fore-edge painting of a house by a river, too large to be 'Pope's House -- Twickenham' as identified in an inserted 19th-century manuscript note. Third edition; together with an 1821 edition of Thomson's The Seasons, with another fore-edge painting of a mansion on the Thames. (3)
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